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A Message
I welcome your advertising the principles in defence of which Hind Swaraj was written. The English edition is a translation of the original which was in Gujarati. I might change the language here and there, if I had to rewrite the booklet. But after the stormy thirty years through which I have passed, I have seen nothing to make me alter the views expounded in it. Let the reader bear in mind that it is a faithful record of conversations I had with workers, one of whom was an avowed anarchist. He should also know that it stopped the rot that was about to set in among some Indians in South-Africa. The reader may balance against this the opinion of a dear friend, who alas! is no more, that it was the production of a fool.1
Mohandas K. Gandhi Segaon, July 14th, 1938.
1Reproduced from the Aryan Path, Special Hind Swaraj Number, published in September, 1938.
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